New Photoshop Details Leaked

Odie writes "Oops. Looks like Adobe accidentally let slip the details of the next Photoshop version due on Friday. According to BetaNews, the next version, dubbed Photoshop CS2, is supposed to add several new features such as Image Warp and Vanishing Point, as well as changing around the file browser to allow users access to royalty-free images from five providers for use in their work. The new version is due in May according to the press release which BetaNews saw."

Comments

misleading

[tyler083]

the announcement is this friday, not the actual new version of photoshop. that is due in may.

am i the only one

[remove office]

am i the only one who's excited about finally (after how many versions of the premier general purpose graphics program) getting a WYSIWYG font selector?

Re:am i the only one

[thirteenVA]

While I agree that a WYSIWYG font selector is awesome, I think the reason we did not see one sooner is based on the target market for photoshop.

Most pro-users like myself use external font management software for which we can preview and select fonts for a project. (as well as activating and deactivating them). I'd hate to think of how slow that WYSIWYG font editor would work with my 500+ fonts.

Re:So expensive

[As Seen On TV]

Usually the better deal is to upgrade the whole suite at once. The retail version of all the products together is $1,000, but you can get the upgrade for $550. That's a hell of a bargain for three world-class apps. (Acrobat is fine too, I suppose, but it's hardly in the same class.)

Re:Never again -- product activation and Sklyarov

[An Onerous Coward]

That's an amazingly biased summary.

Point the first: Skylarov wrote the code on behalf of his employer. Any legal liabilities should have been theirs, not his.

Point the second: Skylarov lived and worked in Russia, a place where American law doesn't apply.

Point the third: Skylarov was arrested under the DMCA, which is a bad, nasty, pointless, stupid law which effectively overthrows the balance of rights that has always existed between publishers and their customers, replacing it with a simple maxim: Publishers can limit the use of their works in whatever ways technology will allow. Further, because of the anti-circumvention portions (which make basic security research illegal) they don't even have to be terribly clever about it. DMCA kills fair use, time shifting, format shifting, etc., unless the publishers deem it in their interests to allow it. Finally, the DMCA allows publishers to protect their works in such ways as will allow them to retain complete control over their works even after the work should have reached the public domain (not that anything new will ever enter the public domain in this country).

Bad laws shouldn't exist. People shouldn't be prosecuted under bad laws. Case closed.

Point the fourth: One of your assertions is flat out wrong. After a meeting with the EFF, Adobe dropped its support for the prosecution of Dmitri Skylarov [press release]. They're still pursuing the case against Elcomsoft.

Don't care about the Skylarov case? Fine. Don't care to boycott Adobe? No problem. But don't come in here and try to misrepresent the case to a group of people who were watching when it happened.